With all the talk about Romney’s Mormon Problem–with some sizable percentage of Americans thinking the religion he belongs to is a cult–this survey would seem to indicate that it’s less of a problem than being twice-divorced. That’s rather interesting given that there seems to be no real stigma to divorce and re-marriage in the society at large. Further, being 72 years old is massively more problematic, at least theoretically.

I’ve long known that an acknowledged atheist could never win the presidency. But who would have guessed that atheists would poll behind homosexuals? Wonder what Andrew Sullivan would make of that?

Being black or a woman is nothing more than a circumstance of birth. It tells you nothing about who the person is or what they stand for. Therefore, for most people, if you say “well qualified” black person or woman, they have nothing else to go on other than well qualified.

With Mormon & twice-divorced, we are talking about specific choices that a person has made. If you think the LDS church is a cult (or that only an idiot would believe what they believe) then you probably question the candidate’s reasoning ability. Similarly, if you think that getting divorced a couple times shows poor judgement or a lack of ability to stick with something or be faithful, you would question the character of the twice-divorced candidate.

Aren’t all conservatives; war mongers, enviornment destroyers, black haters, Mexican haters, in fact anything not white haters, we hate Jews, only like Christians, all of our women stay at home making babies, own guns, don’t think…Rush tells us what to do, gays? kill em all, oh yeah that is what being a conservative is all about. Just ask any moonbat leftist.

Interesting point of comparison is that 1960, only 71% said they would be willing to vote for a Catholic. So Mitt can still win. Also, the breakdown is that liberals and moderates would be more willing than conservatives (66%) to vote for a Mormon.

This poll comes from editor and publisher, a leftist rag. It cannot be trusted as published. No demographic metrics are included. No analysis is provided.

However, if you go to the actual gallup poll, additional information about the poll is provided. For instance, Catholics, blacks, and Jews as candidates are essentially in a dead heat at 92% or higher.

In facts Catholics come out 1% point higher than black, which proves that E&P and Gallup are perhaps misleading the public. I think that Noam Chomsky used to use the term “manufacturing consent” for polls like this.

The poll sampled 1006 adults, 18 or older, NOT LIKELY VOTERS OR REGISTERED VOTERS. In addition, the demographic breakdown of the sample (age, race, gender, etc.) was not revealed.

Yup. I agree with hillbillyjim. I hereby nominate Darth Executor for best comment of the thread.

(It is rare event when a HotAir comment causes me such embarassment because I burst-out laughing while I am here at work. All of the other people in the adjacent cubicles tend to stare at me in disapproval.)

I don’t see any comparison between Mormonism and cults. If that’s the case then political parties are cults too. So are Catholics and Jews.

The best example of a successful cult is islam. Cults control thru fear and punishment. No one is allowed to leave the cult, if they do … death. Women are almost exclusively subserviant in cults. The cult serves to enrich those in power.